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Home My WebLink AboutWINDTRAIL TOWNHOMES PUD PRELIMINARY - 66 93 - CORRESPONDENCE -4 18. The Planning Department files for Hill Pond East Preliminary P.U.D. are available for your inspection. 19. A neighborhood information meeting will be required prior to the submittal of the project through the P.U.D. process. Please contact the Planning Department if you would like to proceed to the neighborhood meeting stage so the notification area and mailing list can be prepared. 3 10. The Engineering Department requires that the "eyebrow" serving Lots 13 - 18 be deleted in favor of a standard cul-de-sac. Also, Lots 68 and 69 should take driveway access from the local street on the north. otherwise, the street stubbed to the south will have to be fully constructed and provided with a fire department/emergency equipment turnaround. Such a turnaround must be of all weather surface and placed on an easement or public right-of-way. 11. The Street Oversizing Fee is $584 per unit, payable at the time of building permit issuance. 12. It has been planned that Shire Court/Shields Street intersection will be abandoned upon development of a local street on the C.S.U.R.F. property. It may be a requirement of this development that an escrow be established to ensure the removal of the Shire/Shields intersection in the future. 13. The Traffic Impact Analysis that was conducted last year for Hill Pond East Preliminary P.U.D., remains valid and can be amended to address the proposed changes in unit type and unit number. The intersection of Hill Pond Drive and Shields must be addressed. .Presently, there are sight distance problems at this intersection that would made worse with addition of 98 units. 14. The project should provide future local street access to the east property line. It is planned that a bike path, and then Centre Avenue, will connect the Centre for Advanced Technology with Prospect Road. This development will be required to provide a local street access to the east as an alternative sole access out to Shields Street. For further information regarding Transportation issues, please contact Rita Davis, 221-6608. 15. The contact person at C.S:U.R.F. is Kathleen Byington, 482- 2916. 16. The developer should consider providing a bike path connection to the Spring Creek Trail from the interior of the site. A logical connection would be between Lots 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 due to-- the intersection with a north -south street. A connection on the east is also suggested. If you have any questons•about trail access, please contact Leslie Bryson, 221-6640. 17. The relationship to the trail on the north must be considered due to the trail being located on the southern most edge of its easement. Treatments include setbacks, landscaping, fencing design restrictions, or any combination that promotes a quality experience for both future .residents and trail users. 5. The site is located in the Spring Creek Drainage Basin. The Storm Drainage Fee in this basin is $1,804 per acre, subject to the amount of stormwater detention and runoff coefficient. Please be aware that there is an existing offsite storm channel upstream of the site. The flows from this channel will have to be accommodated by your proposed street system. It may be possible that, with proximity to Spring Creek, the site will not be required to provide onsite detention, unless the developed storm flows exceed the carrying capacity of the street system. 6. Presently, the site has a dual floodplain designation status. According to F.E.M.A., the site continues to lie within the mapped 100-year floodplain for Spring Creek. The City of Fort Collins, however, does not consider the site to be within the Spring Creek floodplain due to the amount of upstream drainage improvements. Due to the federal designation, the units within the F.E.M.A. floodplain would have to be properly elevated and the owners would be required to purchase flood insurance. The City of Fort Collins has initiated a process to amend the F.E.M.A. maps and the amendment could be approved as early as July of 1993. For further information on this issue, please contact Glen Schlueter, Stormwater Utility, 221- 6589. 7. The Natural Resources has identified portions of the site to have wetland and floodplain values. Please contact Tom Shoemaker, 221-6600, Director of the City's Natural Resources Department,- for -further discussion about possible acquisition of portions of the site. S. While discussions are ongoing regarding possible acquisition, please be aware that the Natural Resources would require that the wetland areas be mapped. It may be that the smaller (less than one acre) and more isolated wetland areas are interconnected hydrologically resulting in one system. The developer should contact Rob Wilkinson, 221-6600, regarding mitigation techniques that preserve the wetland values of the site, and yet still allow development to occur. 9. Please be aware that if the units are to be constructed with basements, then the high groundwater must be addressed. The various- affected City utilities have been working with developer's consultants regarding the design parameters of a residential subdrain system. At this time, the design parameters are implemented on a case by case basis. It is the City's intention to formalize these subdrain design criteria with an ordinance that would be adopted by City Council in the near future. As a potential developer in a high groundwater area, you must provide a hydrological study as part of the standard Utility Plan submittal. Please contact Mike Herzig, 221-6750, for further information regarding design guidelines for a potential subdrain system. CONCEPTUAL REVIEW STAFF COMMENTS MEETING DATE: April 12, 1993 ITEM: East of Hill Pond and Sundering Townhomes APPLICANT: John McCoy, The Prudential/McElroy McCoy Realtors, 3665 John F. Kennedy Parkway, Building One, Suite 100, Fort Collins, CO 80525 LAND USE DATA: Request to subdivide 35 acres located south of Spring Creek and east of Hill Pond and Sundering Townhomes into 71 single family lots and 27 townhomes for a total of 98 units. COMMENTS: 1. The Light and Power Department: has, primary. power available on the west side of the property at Sundering Townhomes. Power would be extended east from this source. Normal residential development charges would apply. Be sure to coordinate with Light and Power if the project is to develop in stages. Please contact Janet Perry, 221-6700, if you have any further questions. 2. There are both water and sewer mains existing on the west side of the site available to be extended to the east. There may be an issue with the sewer line in that it may be at capacity. If this is the case, then an existing sewer.line on the east could be tapped to serve the project. For further information, please contact Mark Taylor, 221-6681. 3. The,"e to will require two points of access. Both Hill Pond an&.' _ re Court must provide access to the site to satisfy the requt=eatents of the Fire Code. If the project is to be phased•,. be sure that there will always be these two points of access. Normal requirements include proper spacing of the fire hydrants and providing minimum water -pressure for fire fighting capability. 4. Each unit will be assessed the Parkland Development Fee. At this time, the fee is $625 per unit, payable at the time of building permit issuance. Commu."ty Planning and Environmental cervices Planning Department City of Fort Collins April 13, 1993 John McCoy The Prudential/McElroy McCoy Realtors 3665 John F. Kennedy Parkway Building One, Suite 100 Fort Collins, CO 80525 Dear Mr. McCoy: For your information, attached is a copy of the Staff's comments concerning East of Hill Pond and Sundering Townhomes, presented before the Conceptual Review Team on April 12, 1993. The comments are offered informally by Staff to assist you in preparing the detailed components of the project application. Modifications and additions to. these comments may be made at the time of formal review of this project. If you should have any questions regarding these comments or the next steps in the review process, please feel free to call me at 221-6750.- Sincerely, —ly /:� Ted Shepard, AICP Senior Planner TS/gjt Attachments cc: Tom Peterson, Planning Director Kerrie Ashbeck, Civil Engineer Transportation Department Stormwater. Department Project Planner File 281 North College Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750